Never one to do things halfway, Next in Design winner Ayisha Onuorah launched her interior design business just weeks after graduating from KLC School of Design last year – one of the most prestigious design schools in the UK, based in London.
A former modeling career in her twenties led to fashion styling, where she experimented with set design, before a moment of inspiration drew her to interiors and she decided to retrain. Four years later, she founded her studio from her home in the vibrant seaside town of Brighton on the south coast of England, not far from where she grew up. Yet her design language is shaped by a far more global perspective, incorporating influences from her Nigerian heritage and, since marrying her Jamaican husband, the Caribbean as well – a region she visits frequently, continually sparking her imagination.
